Office Desktop apps are for professional content creation, sophisticated authoring, data analysis, visualization, and similar tasks where users need precision control of the keyboard and mouse, Microsoft execs have said. The Desktop apps will be fully featured and support advanced functionality like macros.

The Office mobile/touch-first apps, which won't include all the Office Desktop bells and whistles, are more about on-the-go mobile productivity, where there can be some content-creation happening, but where users are likely more focused on content absorption and communication, Microsoft officials have said.

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